Experience in Healthcare Innovation: Fad or New Paradigm?

Using the experience of patients, users, healthcare professionals and other stakeholders to innovate and rethink healthcare organizations and systems is gaining ground. Deploying these innovative methods and practices, however, requires an understanding and mastery of theoretical principles, as well as experimenting with them in the field.

Experience in Healthcare Innovation alternates between theoretical presentations and case studies/examples in order to present the key notions of innovation in healthcare and the experiences of the people at the heart of healthcare ecosystems. It brings together diverse and complementary perspectives, shedding new light on the issue of healthcare experience through the prism of innovation. It includes a wealth of resources, ideas and results for all of those in healthcare wishing to implement innovative approaches that place the human experience at the heart of healthcare ecosystems.

Luigi Flora is the Co-director of the Patient and Public Partnership Innovation Center (CI3P) at Université Côte d'Azur, France, where he specializes in patients' experiential knowledge and its complementarity with healthcare professionals.

Corinne Grenier is Senior Professor HDR at KEDGE Business School, France. Her research concerns the transformation of organizations in the field of healthcare, with regard to an inclusive society.

Frédéric Ponsignon is Associate Professor of Operations Management at KEDGE Business School, France. He has expertise in customer/visitor/patient experience, process management and quality management.